双语趣听精彩世界 第197期:经济运行差,女儿更吃香

 　　This story comes from Korea Times.A study reveals parents prefer daughters over sons in tough economic times.

　　经济运行差,女儿更吃香

　　Carlson School of Management and Rutgers Business School researchers surveyed 629 people to see how economic conditions affect gender¹ preferences for their offspring. Participants read articles telling them the economy was either improving, getting worse or neutral. They were then asked to divide their assets between an imaginary son and daughter.

　　Those who read an article describing the economy as bad allocated² about 60 percent of their assets to a daughter. But when economic conditions were expected to be neutral or improve, participants split their property nearly 50:50.

1 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

2 allocated   

adj. 分配的 动词allocate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The Ford Foundation allocated millions of dollars for cancer research. 福特基金会拨款数百万美元用于癌症研究。
• More funds will now be allocated to charitable organizations. 现在会拨更多的资金给慈善组织。